I have been thinking about taking this blog private. What that would mean is that you would have to be an approved viewer to read it and post comments. It seems I would be limited to about 100 viewers and that would be fine. I doubt I have more than 100 people who come here.
I might want to go private because I don't want certain people to have the chance to mine my blog for things they want to use against me. That might sound paranoid but as you know that has already happened. Since I am about to have a much higher profile I think it might be the smart thing to do.
What do you think?
Please leave a comment about what you think about this or you can email me at trooperkirbyyork@live.com if you want to get in depth in our discussion.
I value your input.
Whatever makes you feel comfortable is ok with me.
ReplyDeleteI'm only for it if I get to be a member. :)
ReplyDeleteYou could actually charge admission and create a model for monetizing blogs.
Just my two cents.
I would of course want you guys to be among the select 100.
ReplyDeleteWe will be like the Spartans.
(Just not as gay....although not that there's anything wrong with that)
I'm fine with this, it's your blog, your choice, I'm just happy to be a part of its commentariat.
ReplyDeleteThank you Allie.
ReplyDeleteYou can be a Spartan broad.
So far it is Unanimous that this will be the best thing to do.
ReplyDeleteI will be changing over at midnight tonight.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who has a problem registering please contact me at trooperkirbyyork@live.com.
WE ARE SPARTA!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, perhaps I am being presumptuous. Do we get to film the whole thing in front of a green screen now?
I AM SPARTACUS!!!
Wait, wrong movie.
Dude, protect yourself and your family. There are some very malevolent forces out there. Not all of them are as weak and pussy whipped as M*ade. Some of them are real ball busters, like that, well, never mind...
Whew Trooper, I was afraid you'd move and not leave a forwarding address! That would be sad.
ReplyDeleteWait, is it April the first again?
ReplyDeleteSounds fine to me.
ReplyDeleteI still say Col. Mustard used a wrench, not a candlestick.
The thing is that I can be a lot more candid and talk about the show a lot more to a very limited crowd of you knuckleheads.
ReplyDeleteSo you will be in with the "In" crowd so to speak.
I think it will be a lot of fun.
ReplyDeletePresumably you don't realize that there are some passive readers, who don't comment, but regularly read. From that POV, a no eavesdropping zone seems lame.
ReplyDeleteJust Sayin'
Hey passiveness is not valued here dude. Didn't you ever read Teddy Roosevelt? Get in the arena.
ReplyDeleteBut that being said I have no problem with you being in the valient 100.
Any passive readers like you or Terri or others will be welcome.
Oh and I don't care if it is lame.
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
You have to protect yourself from a vindictive cunt with a grudge.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't believe me ask Johnny Stompanato.
Fine by me, but did I miss something?
ReplyDeleteYeah.
ReplyDeleteThe Giants are going to the Super Bowl!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, who gets to be Lana Turner? I have some names I would like to submit...
ReplyDeleteI always associate Members Only with Paulie Walnuts.
ReplyDeleteNTTAWWT
I am thinking of growing the gray hair on my temples out into wings like Paulie - he always seemed like such an even tempered well mannered man... an all around nice guy, know what I am sayin'?
ReplyDeleteI probably wouldn't have announced it.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that my application wasn't too subtle.
ReplyDeleteIt was a bit disappointing when ZPS went private and denied me access. But, it would have really sucked if my tubes were de-trooperized.
How would one know if Zachery Paul Socialist went private? Or care?
ReplyDeleteWhat Chickenlittle said. I come to read whatever catches your fancy (and that's some fancy you got there) and the repartee/hilarity that ensues.
ReplyDeleteSixty,
ReplyDeleteI genuinely missed his end of the year song compilations.
And, there was always something fragile about him. What harm could come from being a little nice?
Anyway, he eventually became un-private.
chick said...
ReplyDeleteI'm only for it if I get to be a member.
I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
--Groucho Marx
Awright, since you're going to keep posting farewell songs all night it looks like here's the place to ask:
ReplyDeleteHow do we register or just wait until midnight EST and ask at the door? What if there's a mad scramble and only a hundred out of hundreds get in the door? Is this going to be like Studio 54 where it helps to have a hot chick with you? Are you the flouncer?
Fine ricpic--be that way. You'll miss out.
ReplyDeleteHey chick, I can't joke? Troop couldn't keep me out if he tried, that...that...exclusionist!
ReplyDeleteWe have passes, everybody else waits in line, I hope....
ReplyDeleteI think the way it works is you request membership and sign in and then you are good.
ReplyDeleteWe might try it for a while and see how it goes.
I don't want to make it so hard that you can't see get in as fast as you want. So we will have to see what we will see.
Why are you doing this Troop?
ReplyDeleteWhat happened?
I am not caught up in all the dirt flinging.
I am more focused on my loaf pinching.
tits.
The main thing is that it will be a cool way for me to share with you the behind the scenes things on the show that I don't want everyone to know.
ReplyDeleteI am doing this as a prophylactic measure so to speak.
ReplyDeleteIf you know what I mean.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Hey Titus, do you use prophylactics or do you sacrifice safety for a more "pure" experience?
ReplyDeleteHi, Trooper.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking for my engraved invitation to the High Rollers room at the blog.
Okay, I apologize for that last post. It's the devil made me do it. Course I'll never apologize to Titus. I mean that's a given. Chronicles of wasted time, that's yours truly.
ReplyDeleteHey you are always welcome at my party Ruth Anne.
ReplyDeleteI'm on the phone offering Trooper cookies for a free pass.
ReplyDeleteYou made it in a breeze Allie.
ReplyDeleteDon't sweat it.
Your blog should serve your real life rather than the other way around, or at least not hurt your real life. It therefore sounds like a good idea to take it "private".
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand and I don't know how important this is to you, but I doubt you got up to almost half a million hits on the 20-some commenters who regularly make their views known.
If I had to guess, I would say TY's considerable traffic count is based on people Googling "tits".
ReplyDeleteThanks, titus!
dbp said....
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand and I don't know how important this is to you, but I doubt you got up to almost half a million hits on the 20-some commenters who regularly make their views known."
That is very true. But as you say the blog is secondary to your life. Most of the regular readers will be able to register and read along. Some will not want to be bothered. I will lose readers. But I never did what you needed to do to be a really big traffic blog.
You know.
Kiss the Instapundits ass.
Miss Scarlet and I choose the rope. Natch.
ReplyDeletebut I doubt you got up to almost half a million hits on the 20-some commenters who regularly make their views known.
ReplyDeleteHalf of those are probably mine so I don't think Troop's page views will take a hit.
OTOH, I do know that majority of hits on my blog, 100-200 per day, seem to be spam. And they mostly all go to one post.
Hey, I got past the flouncer at the door!
It's done.
ReplyDeleteA little early because I wanted to fool those who are thinking they can cut and paste.
Let me know how it works for you.
I don't know how it works but eveyone who emails me got an invite.
ReplyDeleteIt gave me a notice that it was going to invite only but that I had been invited. I had to reload your page to get through but there was no problemo.
ReplyDeleteDamn, you scared me there for a minute! I thought naw, he wouldn't do that to me.
ReplyDeleteThis is fucking cool. Can we swear more, now that nobody but us is watching? How about jackets? Can we get jackets? Cool ones with chains and shit dangling off of them. And we can build a clubhouse and hang pictures of tits we steal from our dad's Playboy collections. Man, this is gonna be fun.
ReplyDeleteThis is so much more relaxed. I like it already. What color jackets are we getting?
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, the Mets suck.
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ReplyDeleteDamn autocorrect!
ReplyDeleteWindbag, just as long as you don't call it the He Man Woman Haters Club, like in the Little Rascals.
Windbag, how about a rum and coke with me?
I'm fine with the blog being private, Trooper...you're gaining a higher public profile and too many chuckleheads spoil the broth....so to speak.
ReplyDeleteDo we have a secret handshake? A special burger? The TY Themesong? Maybe like "Troopers Only" Jackets....
Think branding!
Do we have a secret handshake? A special burger? The TY Themesong? Maybe like "Troopers Only" Jackets....
ReplyDeleteThink branding!
I'm working on a logo/avi. More details tomorrow.
Allie, pour away.
ReplyDeleteI meant to write this last night but got called away - PB&J, how about you go fuck yourself, you fucking commie cocksucking rat.
ReplyDeleteWell, that was rude, but appropriate, I must say. Have a nice day.
There there now Sixty, Allie needs another Commie to cuddle up to on a cold Siberian night. No Red Scare here, you still outnumber us, Iv'e had to resort to wearing my aluminum foil hat,, so as not to be infected;)
ReplyDeleteI may be victim of Stockholm Syndrome.
Windbag, meet me at cocktail hour, too early now.
ReplyDeleteI'm watching youse.
ReplyDeleteElisabeth Gorskaya Zarubina
I love rum and Coke Zero, Allie. But lately, I really like spiced rum more than regular rum. That's probably kind of girly, huh?
ReplyDeleteDarcy, spiced rum, yum., nothing wrong with being a girl :)
ReplyDeleteI like rum in tea, so warming .
Matusalem rum w/ cream soda is a great drink.
ReplyDeleteWell, Allie, you may be a communist, but so far I have seen no evidence that you were ratting this site out to the EBC. The only thing worse than a commie and a lawyer is a commie rat. Don't be one.
ReplyDeleteWindbag, those are two of my favorite beverages, together, perfection!
ReplyDeleteRum and coke is fine, just omit the rum and the coke and make it a 12 year old single malt. I'm good...
ReplyDeleteI do like rum, but I'm embarrassed to say that I know nothing about it. I have never tried a "top shelf" rum.
ReplyDeleteYou guys are making me want to. :P
Sixty, any Commie rats, I will send to reeducation camp.
ReplyDeleteDarcy, Start with this rum and go up from there, as the pocketbook allows. Ron Zacapa is great rum. No mixers or ice needed with this. It's just excellent sipping.
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ReplyDeleteA bit pricey, use sparingly
ReplyDeleteMount Gay rum, dark chocolate; incredible length and finish.
ReplyDeleteWhat, too obvious?
Who needs sex when you can have rum and dark chocolate?
ReplyDeleteWhy stop at just two, know what I am saying?
ReplyDeleteToo much of a good thing.....
ReplyDeleteYeah, you are correct, leave out the chocolate and rum and we are good to go.
ReplyDeleteAlrighty then.
ReplyDeleteI will *blush blush blush* let you two have some privacy. ;-)
HEY! Anybody like Andrew Lloyd Webber tunes? Do you think TTBurnett would deem them listen worthy?
ReplyDeleteLet me know when he writes one.
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ReplyDeleteAw come on, I love his composition of Pie Jesu, I realize several others have composed this as well, as part of the RequiemMass.
ReplyDeleteOK I'm a sucker for show tunes.
Andrew Lloyd Weber is this century's Fernando Sor.
ReplyDeleteBernstein could write a musical that contained actual music. Richard Rodgers could write melodies. Copland, Gershwin, they could write music. ALW - meh - tuneless dreck that just won't stop. Don't even get me started on that Les Mis mess - that's a melody-free zone. TO THE BARRICADES!!!
ReplyDeleteNot that I have any opinion on the matter, mind you. But coming from the world of opera I find musicals annoying in the extreme.
I love Musicals, I like to have a Mount Gay afterwards, puts a smile on my face.
ReplyDeleteWho didn't love South Pacific?
ReplyDeleteAllie Oop said...
ReplyDeleteWho didn't love South Pacific?
Ivy Mike, that's who. Our first H-bomb. Blew an atoll to smithereens.
Please don't tell me it was Bali Hai!
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ReplyDeleteThat was hardly a swimsuit. It was no bikini atoll.
ReplyDeleteHooboy! Came in for my daily dose of the York yesterday and got turned away by the big, burly bouncer. So glad I was able to sneak in through the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteThat was hardly a swimsuit. It was no bikini atoll.
ReplyDeleteI heard that one took atoll on the natives.
A familiar story. First you have a blast, but then your mushrooming concerns cast a cloud over everything.
ReplyDeleteI love Musicals, I like to have a Mount Gay afterwards, puts a smile on my face.
ReplyDeleteHas Titus hacked Allie's account?
Has Titus hacked Allie's account?
ReplyDeleteShe said Mount Gay, not Gay Mount. NTTARWT